Single mode visual media capture

• US 8,428,453 B1
• Filed: 08/08/2012
• Issued: 04/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Inventors: Spiegel, Evan Thomas, Murphy, Robert Cornelius
• Primary Examiner(s): Perkey, W. B.
• Application Number:
  US13/570,188
• Time in Patent Office: 258 Days
• Field of Search: 396/297, 396/299
• US Class Current: 396/299
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/632 for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes

Abstract

An electronic device includes digital image sensors to capture visual media, a display to present the visual media from the digital image sensors and a touch controller to identify haptic contact engagement, haptic contact persistence and haptic contact release on the display. A visual media capture controller alternately records the visual media as a photograph or a video based upon an evaluation of the time period between the haptic contact engagement and the haptic contact release.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

digital image sensors to capture visual media;

a display to present the visual media from the digital image sensors;

a touch controller to identify haptic contact engagement, haptic contact persistence and haptic contact release on the display; and

a visual media capture controller to alternately record the visual media as a photograph or a video based upon an evaluation of the time period between the haptic contact engagement and the haptic contact release.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 wherein the visual media capture controller presents a single mode input icon on the display to receive the haptic contact engagement, haptic contact persistence and haptic content release.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 wherein the visual media capture controller selectively stores the photograph in a photograph library.

4. The electronic device of claim 3 wherein the visual media capture controller invokes a photograph preview mode.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 wherein the visual media capture controller selectively stores the video in a video library.

6. The electronic device of claim 5 wherein the visual media capture controller invokes a video preview mode.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 wherein the visual media capture controller selects a frame of the video to form the photograph.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 wherein the visual media capture controller stores the photograph upon haptic contact engagement.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 wherein the visual media capture controller includes instructions executed by a processor.

10. The electronic device of claim 9 further comprising a wireless signal processor, a power control circuit and a global positioning processor connected to the processor.

11. A non-transient computer readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions to:

process haptic contact signals from a display;

record a photograph based upon a first haptic contact signal; and

record a video based upon a second haptic contact signal, wherein the second haptic contact signal is a haptic contact release signal that occurs after a specified period of time after the first haptic contact signal.

12. The non-transient computer readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the first haptic contact signal is a haptic contact engagement signal.

13. The non-transient computer readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the first haptic contact signal and the second haptic contact signal occur at single mode input icon.

14. The non-transient computer readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the first haptic contact signal is a first specified gesture performed on the display.

15. The non-transient computer readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein the second haptic contact signal is a second specified gesture performed on the display.

16. The non-transient computer readable storage medium of claim 11 further comprising executable instructions to store the photograph in a photograph library.

17. The non-transient computer readable storage medium of claim 16 further comprising executable instructions to invoke a photograph preview mode.

18. The non-transient computer readable storage medium of claim 11 further comprising executable instructions to store the video in a video library.

19. The non-transient computer readable storage medium of claim 18 further comprising executable instructions to invoke a video preview mode.